I began reaching out to friends who know things about high fashion, telling them my dreams. This winter, I had one style goal: find a statement coat. But I’ll let Chainz talk about that, later. Yes, it has been revealed that the Lakers star is an official A&R for the album, with both men posting Instagrams of themselves in the studio together. Not as a punch lines MC on your favorite rapper’s songs, but as a cultural figure and as an artist. But as I sat in a converted Washington Heights bodega, three days before the release of his fifth studio album, Rap or Go to the League, waiting for him to tape a performance for the new Desus & Mero on Showtime, it was another reminder of how beloved he remains. I chronicled 2 Chainz with fervor, because I was secretly worried the Chainz Train would ultimately stop. Also in the liner notes of his debut album, in one line-Line 11-he thanked “LeBron James, Versace, Louis V, Gucci, Shots, ESPN’s First Take Staff and Crew” notably (to me, and only me) four lines before “Kanye” and 32 lines before “Steve Jackson (Spurs).” II: #METIME, his tour bus cookbook, #MEALTIME, in which he instructed recipe readers to first “Put your Versace apron on,” and the dance he did behind Nicki Minaj in the “Beez in the Trap” video.Īnd, not to be overlooked, there was the computer game he put out with Adidas and Champs with a plot (still unclear) in which someone steals his chains on the blacktop and he essentially becomes Sonic the Traphog in search of his jewelry. There were two studio albums, Based on a T.R.U. There was the curiosity over the name change from Tity Boi to 2 Chainz there was the revelation that he played college basketball and there was the question of when his Bentley truck would arrive. And in those 18 months, I felt as if it were my duty to write about every move he made, because he was different. There were 18 consecutive months, stretching over 20, when Chainz was a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Additionally, it was because I’d logged so many hours thinking about and writing about Mister Tity 2 Necklace. It was merely out of respect, like removing your hat at the dinner table or saying “yes ma’am” when speaking to someone named Brenda. This sartorial indecision was born not of trying to top, or even to impress, 2 Chainz. In three hours I was set to meet 2 Chainz. On any other morning, each discarded fit would have been perfect for my daily pilgrimage to the library. Pants and coats, hats and hoodies peppered my living room floor and table, discarded remnants of the day’s outfit options that had come and gone.
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